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	<title>Forest Policy Research &#187; Thinning harms forests</title>
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		<title>Colorado: Removing Beetle killed trees won&#8217;t stop beetles</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/03/colorado-removing-beetle-killed-trees-wont-stop-beetle-killed-trees/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/03/colorado-removing-beetle-killed-trees-wont-stop-beetle-killed-trees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infestation fanaticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The idea of rushing into some sort of removal activity prior to this season’s bug flight doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me,” said Kelly Rogers, who is based in the state agency’s Grand Junction office. “It is just not a place that I would be rushing into to cut a bunch of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon: Another $51 million to thin federal forests for better or 	worse?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/05/oregon-another-51-million-to-thin-federal-forests-for-better-or-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/05/oregon-another-51-million-to-thin-federal-forests-for-better-or-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 02:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forest Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deane's Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How do we really know if we hurt or harm a forest when we thin it? The lack of accountability in forestry in the past has been addressed a bit more on US federal lands in recent decades&#8230; But how can we be sure? As someone who loves to drive the back roads of National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon: Destroyers of rainforest start fakin &#8216;da greenies to get 	their hands on stimulus dollars</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/29/oregon-destroyers-of-rainforest-start-fakin-da-greenies-to-get-their-hands-on-stimulus-dollars/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/29/oregon-destroyers-of-rainforest-start-fakin-da-greenies-to-get-their-hands-on-stimulus-dollars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biofools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fake restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fake sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Some people who have long fought to clear-cut the region’s verdant slopes are trying to reposition themselves for a more environmentally friendly economy, motivated by changing political interests, the federal stimulus package and sheer desperation. “I run into people all the time who think we’re lying and trying to go back to old logging ways,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York: Lyme Timber&#8217;s Adirondack park &#8216;conservation easement&#8217; pays them to cut the forest down</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/29/new-hampshire-lyme-timbers-361000-acres-in-adirondack-park-has-a-conservation-easements-that-pays-them-to-cut-most-of-it-down/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/29/new-hampshire-lyme-timbers-361000-acres-in-adirondack-park-has-a-conservation-easements-that-pays-them-to-cut-most-of-it-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consensus catastrophe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservation easement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fake sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature Conservancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Getting paid to log the Adirondacks is fine by Peter Stein. Stein works for thestate&#8217;s largest landowner, New Hampshire-based Lyme Timber Co., whichhas grown by buying forests from old-line companies that used tomeasure success by how much timber was carried on log trucks rumblingout of the woods. Lyme owns 361,000 acres within the Adirondack Park, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon: Questions about stimulus for &#8220;fuels reduction&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/oregon-examples-questions-about-stimulus-funding-for-fuels-reduction/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/oregon-examples-questions-about-stimulus-funding-for-fuels-reduction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deane's Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logging never mimics wildfires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Enclosed below are a couple examples of stimulus bill spending on forest thinning. While reading consider this: Depression-era conservation corp forest thinning created many jobs in the name of  FDR&#8217;s New Deal.
So in the name of what&#8230; is Obama&#8217;s forest thinning funds addressing current joblessness? 
And is Obama&#8217;s stimulus really creating jobs, or&#8230; is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California: USFS proposes more Tahoe thinning which may affect future forest health &amp; fires</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/23/california-usfs-proposes-more-thinning-which-may-affect-future-forest-health-fires/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/23/california-usfs-proposes-more-thinning-which-may-affect-future-forest-health-fires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letters needed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logging never mimics wildfires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban interface]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Forest Service is seeking public comment on a proposal to reduce
hazardous fuels and restore forest health near several communities on
Lake Tahoe&#8217;s East Shore. Forest Service officials expect the proposal
to be released later this week and will host two public meetings on
Tuesday, March 31, 2009, to explain the proposal and answer questions.
Get full text; support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Research results on fuel treatments and fire: National Fire and 	Fire Surrogate Study</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/22/usa-research-results-on-fuel-treatments-and-fire-national-fire-and-fire-surrogate-study/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/22/usa-research-results-on-fuel-treatments-and-fire-national-fire-and-fire-surrogate-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invasive species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logging never mimics wildfires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/22/usa-research-results-on-fuel-treatments-and-fire-national-fire-and-fire-surrogate-study/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Scientists compared the effectiveness of fire fuel reduction methods  under the U.S. National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study. Four articles  examine the effects of prescribed burns, mechanical treatment (usually  thinning of the smallest trees) and a combination of both with control  plots at 12 study sites in forests across the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Timber industry&#8217;s wildly misleading attempt to promote increased 	logging on public lands</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/19/usa-timber-industrys-wildly-misleading-attempt-to-promote-increased-logging-on-public-lands/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/19/usa-timber-industrys-wildly-misleading-attempt-to-promote-increased-logging-on-public-lands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credible science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logging never mimics wildfires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Recent editorials by timber industry spokespersons are a wildly
misleading attempt to promote increased logging of western U.S.
forests under the guise of reducing wildland fires and mitigating
climate change. The timber industry fails to mention, however, that
logging is one of the major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions
(Schlesinger, “Biogeochemistry: an analysis of global change”,
Academic Press, 1997).
Get full text; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California: Effort underway to &#8220;Preserve&#8221; 871 acre Stewarts Point 	Ranch as &#8220;Working Forest&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/09/california-effort-underway-to-preserve-871-acre-stewarts-point-ranch-as-working-forest/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/09/california-effort-underway-to-preserve-871-acre-stewarts-point-ranch-as-working-forest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservation priorities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working forests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/09/california-effort-underway-to-preserve-871-acre-stewarts-point-ranch-as-working-forest/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pacific Forest Trust is working diligently to complete the purchase of Stewarts Point Ranch, an 871-acre property considered one of the most important unprotected coastal redwood tracts in Sonoma County. PFT would hold and manage the property as an educational center and working model of forest stewardship that sustains wood, water, wildlife and a well-balanced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona: Forest Service forcing forest plans into shovel ready 	stimulus status as fast as possible</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/arizona-forest-service-forcing-forest-plans-into-shovel-ready-stimulus-status-as-fast-as-possible/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/arizona-forest-service-forcing-forest-plans-into-shovel-ready-stimulus-status-as-fast-as-possible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wildfire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The thinning projects started with some small communities along the
East Verde, shifted to Pine and Strawberry, and in the past year, have
focused on creating a buffer zone around Payson — especially to the
south where prevailing winds can push fires into the thickly forested
town. “We’ve completed three-quarters of the projects that address an
immediate threat,” said Ed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont: Long term forest resiliency is threatened by chainsaws that mimc &#8216;natural&#8217; forests</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/04/vermont-long-term-forest-resiliency-is-threatened-by-chainsaws-that-mimc-natural-forests/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/04/vermont-long-term-forest-resiliency-is-threatened-by-chainsaws-that-mimc-natural-forests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vermont]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deane's Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timber industry decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[When a forest recovers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Loggers can accelerate the restoration of mature diverse forests while
making money selling logs right? Wrong! These &#8220;restoration&#8221; forester&#8217;s
failing bias is that they are trying to speed up a process of tree /
structural diversity growth in the short term without recognizing the
amount of resiliency they are removing from the forest stand in the
long term.

Healthy stands of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wyoming: Enviros challenge Bridger-Teton NF logging notions</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/18/wyoming-credible-enviros-challenge-logging-notions-on-bridger-teton-nf/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/18/wyoming-credible-enviros-challenge-logging-notions-on-bridger-teton-nf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wyoming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credible science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forest Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/18/wyoming-credible-enviros-challenge-logging-notions-on-bridger-teton-nf/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Conservation groups say U.S. Forest Service officials should reconsider their attempts to attract logging interests to ridger-Teton National Forest after three regional forest supervisors wrote a letter courting logging interests late last month. George Wuerthner, ecological projects director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology, said if the three forest supervisors really wanted to improve forest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana: Custer NF approves two timber sales in Fork Rock and Benbow</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/14/montana-custer-nf-approves-two-timber-sales-in-fork-rock-and-benbow/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/14/montana-custer-nf-approves-two-timber-sales-in-fork-rock-and-benbow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timber industry decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week, Beartooth District Ranger Traute Parrie approved the work
on 238 acres in the Main Fork Rock Creek drainage, about nine miles
south of Red Lodge, and on 377 acres in the Benbow area and near
Fishtail Creek close to Dean. Logging could begin as early as this
winter on commercial sales and take five to 10 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Blaming enviros for firestorm is absurd</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/12/australia-blaming-enviros-for-firestorm-is-absurd-and-dishonest/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/12/australia-blaming-enviros-for-firestorm-is-absurd-and-dishonest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wildfire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There have been claims the bushfires were exacerbated by a lack of
pre-emptive burn-offs, and by too much forest being locked up in
reserves. But Peter Kanowski, professor of forestry at the Australian
National University, said this is an oversimplification. Prof
Kanowski&#8217;s main message was that in some areas, and under certain
weather conditions, there was a high risk of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon: You ask, we Answer. So ask: What&#8217;s with all this Forest 	Health logging?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/12/oregon-you-ask-we-answer-so-ask-whats-with-all-this-forest-health-logging/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/12/oregon-you-ask-we-answer-so-ask-whats-with-all-this-forest-health-logging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this &#8216;You ask; We answer&#8217; Paul asks &#8220;Perhaps you could take a
camera out to the overpass going into Sunriver (15 mi south of town).
Just south of the turn in to Sunriver on the south side of Hwy 97 is a
big logging operation with downed trees all lined up in rows?
Get full text; support writer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona: Enviros limit thinning &amp; burning on 30,000 acres of Kaibab 	NF</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/12/arizona-enviros-limit-thinning-burning-on-30000-acres-of-kaibab-nf/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/12/arizona-enviros-limit-thinning-burning-on-30000-acres-of-kaibab-nf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enviro litigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[When a forest recovers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/12/arizona-enviros-limit-thinning-burning-on-30000-acres-of-kaibab-nf/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A contested plan to log and do prescribed burns in 33,000 acres of the
Kaibab National Forest has been scaled back and limited to trees 18
inches and smaller in diameter, following pressure from environmental
groups. Thinning and burning is now to be conducted on 26,000 acres of
forest on the Kaibab Plateau north of the Grand Canyon, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU: How Thinning can ruin your forest</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/06/eu-how-thinning-can-ruin-your-forest/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/06/eu-how-thinning-can-ruin-your-forest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The thinning response pattern for even-aged Sitka spruce is quantified
for different site types based on two thinning experiments in Denmark
and six comparable experiments in Great Britain, Norway and Sweden.
The effect of thinning from below on stand volume growth is strongly
site dependent, but heavy thinning usually leads to a reduction in
volume growth as compared with an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon: Thinning to eliminate slow growing runts is another cause of 	mass forest die-off</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/06/oregon-thinning-to-eliminate-slow-growing-runts-is-another-cause-of-mass-forest-die-off/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/06/oregon-thinning-to-eliminate-slow-growing-runts-is-another-cause-of-mass-forest-die-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credible science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[When a forest recovers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;These long-lived trees grow slowly &#8212; but not too slow,&#8221; Black said
in a statement. &#8220;It seems to be some kind of balance that the trees
grow at just the right pace for their environment and the conditions
stop just short of causing them to die. The lesson is that there may
be even greater diversity to our forests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pacific Northwest: Dead &amp; dying trees stabilize biodiversity, logging 	ends it!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/05/pacific-northwest-dead-dying-trees-stabilize-biodiversity-logging-ends-it/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/05/pacific-northwest-dead-dying-trees-stabilize-biodiversity-logging-ends-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pacific Northwest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credible science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deane's Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infestation fanaticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/05/pacific-northwest-dead-dying-trees-stabilize-biodiversity-logging-ends-it/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This scientific paper speaks about how forest which aren&#8217;t logged /
managed create stable ecological habitats / functions regardless of
how many trees in the forest are alive or dead. It&#8217;s yet another reason why logging / management is the only true and real cause / reason for the unraveling of forest biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon: USFS intends mushroom silvics for thinning of Deschutes NF</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/03/oregon-usfs-intends-mushroom-silvics-for-thinning-of-deschutes-nf/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/03/oregon-usfs-intends-mushroom-silvics-for-thinning-of-deschutes-nf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative forest resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/03/oregon-usfs-intends-mushroom-silvics-for-thinning-of-deschutes-nf/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The matsutake mushroom is culturally and economically an important
thing for people,&#8221; said Holly Jewkes, Crescent District ranger. During
the planning process for the tree-thinning project, forest staff went
to California to talk with people who come to Central Oregon to
harvest mushrooms, said Joe Bowles, district silviculturist, to see
where the important mushroom harvesting areas are located. The
project&#8217;s record [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama: How does unsightly forest destruction restore a forest to 	its natural state?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/01/alabama-how-does-unsightly-forest-destruction-restore-a-forest-to-its-natural-state/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/01/alabama-how-does-unsightly-forest-destruction-restore-a-forest-to-its-natural-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[habitat restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invasive species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[State lands manager Will Brantley said while the cutting is
aesthetically unpleasant, it is part of a long-term management plan to
return more than 1,100 acres within Jacinto Port to its natural state.
He said operations like this are undertaken across the state on
thousands of acres owned by the State Lands Division and purchased
through grants from the federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona: More on 2 million acre forest thinning mega-project</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/29/arizona-more-on-2-million-acre-forest-thinning-mega-project/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/29/arizona-more-on-2-million-acre-forest-thinning-mega-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Todd Schulke, forest programs director of the Center for Biological
Diversity, called the project unique at the national level.&#8221;The fact
that consensus was reached on almost 70 percent of the landscape is
remarkable,&#8221; he said. In an earlier interview with the Rim Country
Gazette, Dan Eckstein, assistant fire officer with the Payson Ranger
District, said the district has tried chipping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan: Mt. Pleasant Public Schools on 6 primary arguments in favor 	of harmful logging</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/29/michigan-mt-pleasant-public-schools-on-6-primary-arguments-in-favor-of-harmful-logging/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/29/michigan-mt-pleasant-public-schools-on-6-primary-arguments-in-favor-of-harmful-logging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deane's Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harmful logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Pine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to harmful logging and making excuses for why it&#8217;s
acceptable, I&#8217;m always curious, always in want to know more. So today an
article comes through that sums up all those excuses so clearly. Below
you will find and article that best illustrates six primary arguments
for harmful logging: 1) It&#8217;s maintaining / sustaining the forest, 2)
too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California: Irrational unscientific fire plan to lay waste to Chaparral habitat</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/28/california-irrational-unscientific-fire-plan-to-lay-waste-to-chaparral-habitat/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/28/california-irrational-unscientific-fire-plan-to-lay-waste-to-chaparral-habitat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban interface]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Friend of the Chaparral &#8211; On January 9th San Diego County Planning Commission passed along a vegetation  “management” report to the Board of Supervisors despite  overwhelming opposition from the public and the fire science community. The  report sets the stage for extensive “fuel” treatments in protected  wildland areas, actions that will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Actually S-22 Omnibus Wilderness bill authorizes biomass removal projects from 5,000,000 acres of public land</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/27/usa-actually-s-22-omnibus-wilderness-bill-authorizes-biomass-removal-projects-from-5000000-acres-of-public-land/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/27/usa-actually-s-22-omnibus-wilderness-bill-authorizes-biomass-removal-projects-from-5000000-acres-of-public-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corrupt environmentalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenwashing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Wilderness protection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
President Obama has the chance to do the  right thing here, but he needs more information to get him on the right  track. President Obama needs to be informed of the damage Title IV of Omnibus  Public Land Management Act of 2009 (Senate bill S.22) would cause and to reject  Title IV, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana: Wuerthner&#8217;s yet to see a logging operation that doesn&#8217;t impoverish the land</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/27/wuerthners-yet-to-see-a-logging-operation-that-doesnt-impoverish-the-land/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/27/wuerthners-yet-to-see-a-logging-operation-that-doesnt-impoverish-the-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corrupt environmentalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenwashing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/27/wuerthners-yet-to-see-a-logging-operation-that-doesnt-impoverish-the-land/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An associate who works for a major environmental group doesn&#8217;t want to
talk to me anymore. He has concluded that I&#8217;m against logging because
I won&#8217;t uncritically support the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship
Proposal (BCSP), a plan that, among other things, calls for logging a
portion of the Lolo National Forest in Montana. He&#8217;s right. I don&#8217;t
support the BCSP because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado: Forest Service thinks logging in drought stressed Aspen 	forests improves vigor?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/25/colorado-forest-service-thinks-logging-in-drought-stressed-aspen-forests-improves-vigor/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/25/colorado-forest-service-thinks-logging-in-drought-stressed-aspen-forests-improves-vigor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infestation fanaticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/25/colorado-forest-service-thinks-logging-in-drought-stressed-aspen-forests-improves-vigor/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Preliminary results from an aerial survey of the Rio Grande National
Forest show a familiar pest has expanded its reach and a new malady is
striking the forest&#8217;s aspen stands. The infestation of spruce beetles
expanded by 42,500 acres, but for the first time foresters are seeing
significant signs of sudden aspen decline on the 1.8 million-acre
forest. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon: Pileated Woodpecker numbers kept stable by keepin Beetle kill forests un-harvested</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/25/oregon-pileated-woodpecker-numbers-kept-stable-by-keepin-beetle-kill-forests-un-harvested/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/25/oregon-pileated-woodpecker-numbers-kept-stable-by-keepin-beetle-kill-forests-un-harvested/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deadwood is essential]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
After tracking pileated woodpeckers over time  in an areas affected by bark beetles and bud worms, researchers found that  &#8220;Even where mortality was high among grand fir and Douglas-fir, as long as  extensive logging and fuel reduction treatments had not occurred and an  abundance of large live or dead trees and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois: Bethlehem water agency taking cut-rate bid on a logging 	contract</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/23/illinois-bethlehem-water-agency-taking-cut-rate-bid-on-a-logging-contract/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/23/illinois-bethlehem-water-agency-taking-cut-rate-bid-on-a-logging-contract/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deane's Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal selling of public land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trees & Water]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/23/illinois-bethlehem-water-agency-taking-cut-rate-bid-on-a-logging-contract/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to logging for forest health, the less interested the
loggers are in your cutting plan, the more likely the plan is
credible. Which isn&#8217;t to imply that we solve problems (bad logging in
the past) by doing more of what caused the problem in the first place
(more bad logging with fake green eco-talk). Leaving the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Tree death in forests dramatically increase due to climate 	change</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/23/usa-tree-death-in-forests-dramatically-increase-due-to-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/23/usa-tree-death-in-forests-dramatically-increase-due-to-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infestation fanaticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tree death rates have more than doubled over the last few decades in
old-growth forests of the western United States, and the most probable
cause of the worrisome trend is regional warming, according to a U.S.
Geological Survey-led (USGS) study published in Science on January 23.
The study found that the increase in dying trees has been pervasive.
Tree death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio: A good way to explain what&#8217;s wrong about the industrial notion of a healthy forest</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/22/ohio-a-good-way-to-explain-whats-wrong-about-the-industrial-notion-of-a-healthy-forest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban forest]]></category>

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The Southern Ohio District of the Church of the Brethren has chosen to  conduct a timber sale at Woodland Altars Outdoor  Education Center  in northern Adams  County. Literally three  generations of children from all over Ohio have visited Woodland Altars not  just to study nature, but to leam many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Corrupt Countrycare cuts Oak forest heart out of Norton Heath 	Preserve</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/22/uk-corrupt-countrycare-cuts-oak-forest-heart-out-of-norton-heath-preserve/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/22/uk-corrupt-countrycare-cuts-oak-forest-heart-out-of-norton-heath-preserve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corrupt environmentalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fake restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban forest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely furious. I can&#8217;t believe they have come and cut down
all the oak trees. They are absolutely tearing it to pieces. You can
see right through the woodland. They have annihilated it. They have
just gone in there and started cutting everything down and some of
those oak trees must be 80 years old. I remember them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon: Importance of Dead Trees, in response to industry logging demands</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/20/oregon-importance-of-dead-trees-in-response-to-industry-logging-demands/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/20/oregon-importance-of-dead-trees-in-response-to-industry-logging-demands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forest Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World-Wide Tree News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lack of peer reviewed science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logging caused wildfire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logging never mimics wildfires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wildfire]]></category>

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The on-going discussion  in the Register Guard about wildfire, and our forests is very important to the Eugene area and Oregon  in general. Not to beat a dead horse, but the viewpoints of timber industry  representatives tends to ignore much new ecological science and relies on old  ideas and/or partial truths. [...]]]></description>
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